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Step 4 : Stem stitch the remaining portion.
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A two-week hearing began Monday to determine the fate of Tribune Co. more than two years after an ill-advised $8.2 billion buyout drove one of the oldest U.S. media companies into bankruptcy protection.
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The hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., will affect the ownership of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Sun of Baltimore, other daily newspapers and 23 television stations. The TV stations include Chicago-based WGN, which reaches more than 70 million homes nationwide, mostly through cable and satellite systems.
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Tribune Co., founded in 1847, filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2008, making it the first major U.S. newspaper publisher to do so during the Great Recession. The deep downturn magnified the challenges facing newspaper publishers as readers and advertisers moved from print to digital alternatives.
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Tribune Co. favors a plan that would turn over ownership to the company's major creditors, including some that had helped line up the ruinous financing, which already has triggered lawsuits. It would shield the lenders involved in the buyout from lawsuits after the company emerges from Chapter 11. Opponents of the plan contend it would also block attempts to sue former Tribune Co. shareholders who received $4.3 billion in the buyout's first phase.
This proposal has the backing of Tribune's Co.'s proposed new owners -- a group led by banker JPMorgan Chase & Co., distressed debt specialist Angelo, Gordon & Co. and hedge fund Oaktree Capital Management. It's also supported by Tribune Co.'s committee for unsecured creditors.
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Zell, still Tribune Co.'s chairman, has filed objections to both plans because he and a business arm, Equity Group Investments, would remain exposed to lawsuits alleging fraud.
The competing reorganization plans also came up with dramatically different estimates on Tribune Co.'s business value. The company-backed plan pegs it at $6.7 billion, compared with $8.3 billion in the Aurelius-led proposal.
Tribune Co. has been gradually recovering from the recession, primarily because of an industry-wide revival in television advertising. The company's revenue last year totaled $3.1 billion, 2 percent below 2009, based on court documents.
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Those forecasts assume the new owners won't break the company apart by selling some of the newspapers and TV stations.
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Peridinium laeve var. bitravectum Er.Lindemann 1919
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Peridinium laeve var. bitravectum Er.Lindemann 1919: 256, fig. 129
Published in: Lindemann, E. (1919). Untersuchungen über Süßwasserperidineen und ihre Variationsformen. Archiv für Protistenkunde 39: 209-262, pl. 17.
Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Peridinium is Peridinium cinctum (O.F.Müller) Ehrenberg.
Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Palatinus apiculatus var. laevis (Huitfeldt-Kaas) S.C.Craveiro, A.J.Calado, Daugbjerg & Moestrup
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Adjective (Latin), smooth, free from uneveness, hairs or roughness (Stearn 1973).
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Moestrup, Ø. & Calado, A.J. (2018). Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Freshwater Flora of Central Europe, Volume 6: Dinophyceae. pp. [i]-xii, [1]-560, 421 figs. Berlin: Springer Spektrum.
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Problem 1 – Not Doing One's Homework
The basis of the investigation is that Patriot Solutions is classified as a "service-disabled, veteran-owned company." WWMT noted that the disability rating of the owners is "0 percent," so they are alleging some sort of fraud.
The problem is, as the National Veteran-Owned Business Association could readily tell you, having a "0 percent" disability doesn't mean that a veteran wasn't disabled as a result of their service to their country. What it means is that their disability is not at a "compensable level" – meaning it doesn't "substantially [limit] one or more major life activities."
So, for example, a veteran could have a "0 percent" disability rating if they suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder but are able to make it to work every day and lead a relatively normal life despite suffering from mental health issues.
Problem 2 – Asking Questions One Knows Can't be Answered
What WWMT did with their ambush interview was put Patriot Solutions in an impossible position: every journalist worth his/her salt knows that any employer has to decline to comment on private personnel matters. It's against the law – employees have privacy rights. Same with patients; showing up at a hospital and demanding information on someone being treated is a HIPAA violation. Further, the same is true of students; their privacy is protected by FERPA.
Veterans of the Marine Corps and the Army (which the owners of Patriot Services are) deserve respect and fair treatment as much as all other citizens (if not moreso). What WWMT essentially did was attack these individuals during business hours and demand that they cough up sensitive, personal medical information because its reporter doesn't know how to use the Google Machine.
Dick move, WWMT. Dick move. Hopefully they do the right thing and nix the piece before they do more damage.


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Should Revealing Fracking's Chemicals Be A Crime?
from the something-to-hide? dept
The use of hydraulic fracturing -- aka fracking -- to extract gas is a controversial practice, with opinions divided on its risks and benefits. But irrespective of those differences, you might have expected people to be united on the need for health and safety to be a priority. But in North Carolina it seems that they see things differently, as this story in Newsweek explains:
A bill introduced in the North Carolina Senate would charge individuals with a felony if they disclose trade secret-protected information about fracking chemicals, EnergyWire reported Thursday. The bill includes a provision that would allow emergency first responders like fire chiefs and doctors to obtain the chemical information in an emergency. But information disclosed outside of emergency settings could land an offender in prison for several months.
It's not clear why the chemicals used for fracking should be secret in the first place, since that makes it hard for public health authorities to monitor the environmental and health impacts of fracking on local communities -- although a cynic might suspect that's a feature, not a bug, as far as the industry is concerned. The latter's justification for secrecy certainly doesn't stand up to scrutiny:
Large amounts of chemical fluid, water and sand must be injected into a fracking well to fracture underground rock and let gas flow from otherwise hard to reach deposits. That fluid can be made from a number of different chemicals. In many cases, fracking companies claim that disclosing their ingredient list, in whole or in part, would damage their ability to compete in the market.
Whatever those mysterious chemicals might be, there's no doubt that they can be lethal for the people working with them:
Much is still unknown about the health effects of fracking. Water samples taken near fracking sites have found elevated levels of endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health wrote that at least four well workers have died since 2010 due to "acute chemical exposure" from flow-back fluid at fracking sites.
What's particularly worrying about North Carolina's proposal is that it seeks to establish that "trade secrets" trump things like health and safety. Nor is it unique in this respect: as we've reported, the pharma industry is fighting efforts to make key clinical trials data available for independent analysis on the grounds that such test data is confidential -- again, asserting that this would outweigh public health concerns.
All these are part of a larger move to create yet another class of powerful corporate rights alongside patents, copyright and trademarks. That's clear from the proposal to include greater protection for trade secrets in agreements like TAFTA/TTIP and TPP. Indeed, for the latter, we know from the leaked intellectual property chapter that there are proposals for the disclosure of every kind of trade secret to be criminalized, not just ones about fracking's toxic cocktails.
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Low-budget comedy Lost In Thailand has become the biggest local film ever in China and the producers, Enlight Pictures, are taking the lessons of its success to heart. Liz Shackleton reports
Box office records have become a fleeting victory in China. Due to the market's breakneck growth, no sooner has one local production become the highest-grossing Chinese film ever, than its conquest is swept away by the behemoth just a few months behind it.
But the success of Xu Zheng's comedy Lost In Thailand at the end of last year caught everybody, including the film's producers Enlight Pictures, by surprise. With a $4m budget, it was considered a relatively small film without major stars. Released on December 12, it went on to gross more than $200m, leaving the season's big-budget blockbusters in the dust. Only Avatar has so far grossed more in mainland China.
Comedy actor Huang Bo was arguably the film's biggest star, following his roles in Ning Hao's 2006 Crazy Stone and 2009 Crazy Racer. Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang had previously co-starred in 2010 hit comedy Lost On Journey, but neither were big names and Xu was making his directing debut with the movie. He shopped Lost In Thailand around at least four different Beijing studios before he wound up at Enlight.
"Xu Zheng came into my office and for about 20 to 30 minutes acted out the film, scene-by-scene," remembers Wang Changtian, president of Enlight Pictures' parent company Enlight Media. "Lost On Journey was popular among young people, although it hadn't been a huge hit. So based on the connection to that film, and the cast and story, I thought Lost In Thailand would make about $11m-$13m (rmb70m-rmb80m) and we'd break even."
At that point, Huang Bo was not attached to the movie. After Wang and Enlight Pictures president Li Xiaoping persuaded him to come on board, Wang revised his estimate upwards a little bit. When he saw the rough cut, he thought it could probably reach around $48m-$64m (rmb300m-rmb400m). But the eventual box office was beyond his wildest dreams.
'Sequels and franchises will be important as the audience responds to recognisable brands'
Wang Changtian, Enlight Media
Inevitably, there has been much speculation about why the film has been so popular with Chinese audiences. Xu Zheng plays an ambitious businessman who races to Thailand to stop his boss selling a new technology, hotly pursued by a jealous colleague, played by Huang Bo. Wang Baoqiang plays a simple pancake-maker who Xu's character attempts to manipulate during his journey. Commentators speculated that for China's middle classes, caught up in the headlong selfish pursuit of material wealth, the film carries a refreshing moral message about why the pancake-maker's values may actually be the ones to pursue.
While Wang agrees with this theory, he says Lost In Thailand is also the carefully planned result of a strategy shift towards making films that are more directly relevant to mainland audiences and much more focused on specific genres. "In the past our industry has produced many films that sent mixed messages about their genre. They became a mishmash of mainland, Hong Kong and American influences," says Wang.
"We need to start making very specific films that are targeted at specific audiences. The trend of the Chinese film industry will be more like the US, than Europe, Korea or Japan. Sequels and franchises will be important as the audience responds to recognisable brands. Sequels also save on marketing costs and help us to develop new actors."
This new strategy, which Enlight started to focus on at the end of 2011, also means the company is lessening its dependence on Hong Kong directors, stories and acting talent. Launched just five years ago, Enlight Pictures started out by co-producing Hong Kong films such as Wilson Yip's Flash Point and Andrew Lau's Legend Of The Fist: The Return Of Chen Zhen. Wang also formed a partnership with Hong Kong film-maker Gordon Chan, who directed hit martial-arts mystery The Four for the company.
But while some of these films were successful, many others did not quite hit the mark with mainland audiences. "We felt Hong Kong directors are not that familiar with what Chinese mainland audiences are looking for, especially the different nuances in different parts of the country," says Wang. "So we decided to start working more with mainland directors, with a focus on new talent."
As the mainland film industry is still in its infancy, new talent is pretty much all that Wang had available to him. And even directors with one or two films under their belt were in scarce supply. Wang quickly realised he was going to have to create new film-makers, along with projects they could cut their teeth on.
Some of his new directors, such as Xu Zheng, are actors who are keen to move behind the camera. Enlight's upcoming slate includes romantic drama So Young, the directorial debut of actress Vicki Zhao Wei, whose acting credits include Red Cliff and Painted Skin: The Resurrection.
Others, like Zhao Linshan who directed last year's period epic The Assassins for Enlight, come from an advertising background, while Xu Zhengchao (Sad Fairy Tale) and Wong Tsz Ming (upcoming action comedy Badges Of Fury) have worked in TV. Enlight is also developing a project that will be the directing debut of young Chinese author Guo Jingming.
Discovering the process
Experienced screenwriters are also thin on the ground in China, but Enlight tries to pair new directors with established writers and guide them through the development process. Xu Zheng is a special case; although he had co-writers on Lost In Thailand, he has studied scriptwriting extensively, including classes with US screenwriting guru Robert McKee.
"We never used to get involved in development," says Wang. "When we were working with famous directors, we'd respect their decisions on script, cast and production, even on budget, and gave them right away what they asked for. But then some of the films didn't turn out the way we expected. Now we're involved at every stage to make sure we're all heading in the right direction."
Wang adds that, while the company may still be earning its chops in production, it has longer experience in distribution, and is a market leader in the areas of TV programming and integrated marketing.
Launched by Wang as a TV company in 1998, Enlight Media produces some of China's biggest entertainment shows, such as Entertainment Live. The company is also involved in the advertising industry, multimedia promotion, award shows, events and public relations. "We have a deep understanding of the entertainment industry and young Chinese audiences," says Wang.
'We are involved at every stage to make sure we're all heading in the right direction'
Wang Changtian, Enlight Media
With this built-in platform to promote movies, it seemed a logical step to first enter film distribution, building up a nationwide network of distribution offices, and finally production. Much like China's Bona Film Group, Enlight started out by distributing films that it passively co-produced with Hong Kong studios and then worked its way up the value chain. In August 2011, Enlight listed on the Shenzhen stock exchange, raising more than $200m to increase its investment in film and TV production.
3Although it co-produced Bait 3D with Australia and Singapore, Enlight has not been as focused on setting up international co-productions, or funding international films, as some of its competitors have. Nor does it have an international sales department —preferring to work with existing sales agents such as Easternlight Films and Hong Kong-based Golden Network Asia.
"At present we don't really have time to explore international co-operation," explains Wang. "The biggest problem with co-production is determining who your main audience is — China or another country — especially on cast choice. And it's not easy to sell Chinese films to the international market. But we think the situation will change over the next three to five years."
Capitalising on the success of Lost In Thailand, Enlight worked with AMC Theatres to release the film in the US at the beginning of February. The results were modest as road movies, and the moral lessons of the pancake-maker, are not new concepts for US audiences. But Wang did not have high expectations and is understandably quite happy with the film's local box-office haul.
Now China is speculating about what Xu Zheng — who picked up the Top-Grossing Asian Film prize at the Asian Film Awards — will direct next. Inevitably a sequel to Lost In Thailand is in the works, although it has not been decided where Xu will next lose himself. Before that, he is likely to direct another comedy not related to the hit film.
"Xu Zheng is extremely picky — he has set high standards for himself both as an actor and with his directing projects," says Wang. "He won't direct anything just for a job."


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On September 7th, the region of Mont-Tremblant will host a new cyclosportive, a mass participation cycling event formula that has been established for decades on the international scene and is now gaining popularity across Canada. The first edition of the Gran Fondo Mont-Tremblant will take place on two courses that are accessible to all; on roads that hug rivers, fields and farms, through forests and mountains; offering a unique opportunity to discover Mont-Tremblant's road cycling network.
Gran Fondo means "big ride" in Italian. It stands for escape, challenge and performance and is especially popular in Europe, the United States and now in Canada. For this first edition, the organizers are offering two routes: the Medio Fondo at 80 kilometres and the Gran Fondo, a 125 kilometre distance. The Gran Fondo Mont-Tremblant will be a real cycling celebration, where riders meet in a non-competitive environment to take on a personal challenge and share the pleasure of cycling on a first class course. Participants will enjoy a well organized event that meets the high standards of Tremblant events. In order to celebrate this event, registration includes a vest in the event colors and freebies all weekend; starting with the Gran Fondo Mont-Tremblant 'Prologue' on Friday evening at the Tremblant's 24h of cycling site, an opportunity for all participants to meet.
During this ride, cyclists will be provided with police protection and supervision throughout. From the start line, cyclists will travel the Montée Ryan, a symbolic route in the region, to discover the valleys and landscapes of Brébeuf and St. Rémi d'Amherst through to Route 364 - Rockway Valley, which promises an outstanding cycling surface. They will receive the support and cheers of encouragement from the business owners on the main street of downtown Mont-Tremblant. Participants in the 125 km ride will continue on their journey to Val-des-Lacs and Lake Superior before arriving at the finish line in the Tremblant pedestrian village.
Gran Fondo Mont-Tremblant will engage approximately 75 volunteers. Spouses or friends who are not registered for the Gran Fondo Mont-Tremblant can volunteer to help the organization of this great cycling event. It provides an interesting and different way to participate and discover the Tremblant region and its major sporting events. For more details, visit www.granfondotremblant.ca .
There is still time to register for the first edition of Gran Fondo and discover two magnificent courses that showcase the regions' attractions. The registration deadline is Monday, September 2nd. To register, please visit www.granfondotremblant.ca .
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We are on our way home from an impromptu two-day retreat, and I have turned the very back seat of our car into a temporary office. While my knees are jammed between two car seats and I occasionally have to angle my screen to compensate for sun glare, I can't complain. My office windows currently happen to offer the breathtaking view of Charlotte Harbor, its canvas peppered with boats whose white sails contrast nicely against the sky, and there are two sweet bodies—one at 10 o'clock, one at 2—to keep me company.
A quick trip to drive Rebecca to her parents' house on Gasparilla Island turned into an extended stay for us—one that involved mornings sipping coffee on the dock and evenings deciding what Big Olaf ice cream flavor was the best (it's a tie between Butterfinger Blast and Kahlua Krunch).
Yesterday morning, as I made a comfortable seat out of sand and positioned myself so I could sip my coffee, watch the pelicans and still keep an eye on Nella who was busy investigating sea oats behind me, I did what you may have done at the intake of this very sentence. I laughed. Seriously. Seaside coffee? Pelicans? Babies and sea oats? Ride a unicorn, why don't you.
And my first instinct is to tip the scale, shifting the balance back where it belongs. Birthday party, Isle of Capri, morning coffee on the dock—Fun's ahead by three points in our lives, and if events aren't fairly proportioned between work and play, home and away, I'll feel like we're doomed for the other shoe to drop. Like that imaginary pinched chick with the tight bun and the clipboard who hands out good and bad will notice our unfair share and come lay hell on our lives.
I'm learning to ride the wave though. Balance occurs naturally, and feeling guilty for a few moments retreat or immediately packing up and heading home, purposefully running out of gas along the way, isn't going to help anything. If anything, a short, calm intermission has revitalized me to return home, restore order, clean clutter, and get back to work, all the while remembering to welcome more tranquil moments and to be grateful for all of it—the highs, the lows, the crazy, the lazy, and the mortar in between.
I look at balance a bit differently now. It isn't a game of keeping score so much where good and bad, chaotic and quiet, stressful and restful have to be even players in our home but more so a measure of our response to harmonize the presence of whatever circumstances happen to be hovering. When challenges come, we accept them, learn from them, chop and puree those damn lemons into something sweet and likewise, when the good and easy comes, we drink it in gulps knowing that, like hardships, it won't last forever.
It just so happens we had the privilege of leaving the good faucet on a little longer this week.
Rebecca's parents are also from Michigan and, while we collectively recalled what we missed about our home state–namely, the October russet landscape and fall apple orchard adventures–we unanimously concluded that there is something quite marvelous about babies growing up on the gulf.
We also realized, after spending a couple days in a fully carpeted home, Nella really does know how to do a real crawl with the whole alternating hand/knee coordination thing–and she does it well. But the minute Smartie's knees hit hard surface, she's skidding her belly seal-style–not to be underestimated, however, because Sister can slither quick and gracefully like the speedy little lizards who dart across our garage floor every morning. She high-tailed it from one end of the walk-around porch to the other in all of one-one thousand, two-one thousand, three-one thousand seconds.
Finish Line Reward.
And, just like a kid at show-and-tell, we whip out our family's best moves for people we haven't seen in a while. Like we have Lainey perform that pointed toe tappy thing she does from ballet (applause, applause) and when Nella slips her foot out of her high chair during dinner, we yell for everyone to come look.
It was a good couple days.
Can I get an "amen" for how good it feels to watch your friends love your babies? These kids are my heart and when you love them, you consequently just found yourself a deeper place in my own heart. Likewise, to let my friends know I love them…sometimes loving their kids is the best place to start.
As balance would have it, I've just smashed my arm into an old Nutrigrain bar, and its sticky remains are glued to my forearm. Nella is unhappily awakening from her travel nap, and we are pulling into our driveway where the scene from my office windows has shifted: a lawn that needs to be mowed, trash cans that need to be put away, a house with closed blinds that, if open, would reveal a post-party hot mess that calls for clean-up.
Oh, it's good to be home.
The other shoe has dropped.
Congratulations to the winner of a new Sweet Seat, Comment #462: Picture Parables: Love, love, love your way with words-so much so, that I'm having contractions with my first on the way, and I just HAD to read your blog this morning!
Picture Parables, please send your contact info (and a picture of that new baby!) to [email protected], and your new little one will soon have something pretty to sit in!
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Teachscape Wins Two Education Technology Awards
Dec 04, 2012, 09:17 ET
Teachscape receives Tech & Learning's Awards of Excellence and District Administration's Readers' Choice Top 100 Products
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Teachscape, the leader in delivering Web-based professional learning content, innovative technologies, and expert services to improve teaching practice, was recently recognized by two leading education awards for their innovative technologies. Teachscape Learn Professional Learning Suite and Teachscape Reflect Video won Tech & Learning's Awards of Excellence and Teachscape Reflect Live won District Administration's Readers' Choice Top 100 Products award.
"Improving teacher effectiveness – and ultimately driving student achievement – is at the heart of what we do," said Kathy Yates, chief executive officer of Teachscape. "The recognition from these leading awards programs acknowledges the impact our professional learning, observation and evaluation technologies have in schools and districts nationwide and our commitment to helping teachers succeed."
The 2012 Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence named 83 education technology products as winners in its prestigious 30-year-old recognition program. A panel of more than 30 educators, who tested more than 160 entries, chose the winning products that included software, hardware, network, and Web products. Teachscape Learn Professional Learning Suite and Teachscape Reflect Video were named winners in the Best Upgraded Products category.
The Teachscape Learn Professional Learning Suite provides access to a rich, deep array of easy-to-use, research-based online multimedia content libraries. These libraries help teachers and instructional leaders deepen their understanding of academic content while developing effective strategies for improving teaching and learning. The extensive resources are offered as ten content libraries made up of more than 160 courses.
Teachscape Reflect Video uses a robust online software platform to support professional growth, improve reflective learning, and strengthen teaching practice. With Teachscape Reflect Video, educators can capture a complete lesson or lesson segment from any video-recording device. Video is stored securely and easily accessed via Teachscape's web-based software to review, comment, and share the video with colleagues anytime, anywhere.
The annual District Administration Readers' Choice Top 100 Products award recognizes leading products in the education industry. It provides superintendents and other senior school district leaders with the unique opportunity to learn what products their colleagues around the country are using, and how these products contribute to the success of their districts. With more than 1,000 nominations this year, the winners – including Teachscape Reflect Live – were selected by the editors of District Administration and were based upon both the quantity of nominations and the quality of reader descriptions.
Teachscape Reflect Live is a tablet-based observation management and reporting tool that allows observers to move from traditional paper forms to a technology-enabled process. The tool is now one part of the complete observation and evaluation management and reporting system from Teachscape and combines observation scheduling, live observation, document/artifact management, and reporting – with video-based observation data, for a holistic view of teaching effectiveness.
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You can read the program of today's conference by clicking on the image above. I will write another post on the exhibition once I get a chance to visit it.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Conference and exhibition about László Gerevich
You can read the program of today's conference by clicking on the image above. I will write another post on the exhibition once I get a chance to visit it.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Villard de Honnecourt in Hungary
|Villard's drawing of a window from Reims,
with announcement of his trip to Hungary
At this period, a renewed impact of French Gothic (High Gothic, to be precise) can be detected in Hungary - especially at Pilis and at the Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma. Crucial monuments include the tomb of Queen Gertrude and the famous Porta Speciosa at Pannonhalma, both dating from the 1220s. It is perhaps not coincidental that roughly at the same time, the famous Villard de Honnecourt visited Hungary. Just as we are not quite sure of his profession, it is similarly unclear what he did in Hungary or when exactly he visited. Evidence for his visit is included in his sketchbook: on fol. 10v, next to the drawing of an aisle window at Reims, Villard writes: "I had been sent into the land of Hungary when I drew it because I like it best." He also mentions on another folio the he "was once in Hungary, where [he] remained many days". Of all the things he saw there, he chose to draw a pavement, which he saw in a church - at a place he did not name.
|On top, Villard's drawing of pavement
motifs he had seen in Hungary
Theories abound concerning the date and purpose of Villard's Hungarian visit. Pilis abbey emerges as a place he may have visited for several reasons:
One of the pavement motifs drawn by Villard in Hungary is known from Pilis Abbey.
The tomb of Gertrude, as well as the fragmentary tomb slab of a knight is in the same style (the characteristic Muldenfaltenstil) as Villard's drawings - leading Gerevich to believe that these were designed by Villard.
Mentioning these and similar comparisons, Imre Takács also proposes a hypothesis for the historical context of Villard's Hungarian trip (published first in a study: "The French Connection: On the Courtenay Family and Villard de Honnecourt Apropos of a 13th-Century Incised Slab from Pilis Abbey," Künstlerische Wechselwirkungen in Mitteleuropa, ed. Jirí Fast and Markus Hörsch, Ostfildern, 2006, pp. 11-21.). After the murder of Queen Gertrude (of Andechs-Meran), King Andrew II married Yolande de Courtenay, and Imre Takács emphasizes the role of the Courtenay family in Hungary. They were also the lords of the area where Villard was from. Takács proposed that the red marble tomb slab from Pilis was that of Robert de Courtenay, Latin emperor of Constantinople (1221-1228).
|Drawing of a soldier from Villard's sketchbook
and fragments of the tomb of a knight
(Robert de Courtenay?) from Pilis
Takács also poses the following questions: "Is it possible that Villard … may have been traveling in the entourage of Emperor Robert on his way east in the winter of 1220? Could we not suppose in fact that Villard was a multi-talented individual in the Courtenay court and capable of carrying out "engineering" tasks, giving theoretical advice and making practical decisions? And finally, is it not possible that the quality of the drawing on the Pilis inscribed slab is so similar to Villard's personal style, because he may actually have taken part in the work's creation, if only in so much as making the sketches?"
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UBERMORGEN at Carroll/Fletcher, London
UBERMORGEN, Perpetrator i (2008) detail. Pigment Print on Paper, 220 x 146 cm.
Edward Snowden, MMO gamming sweatshops in China, torture as participatory art, madness, and the troubled life of a Guantanamo Bay prison guard. The diverse research-based practice of Swiss-Austro-American duo UBERMORGEN makes a sustained assault on the notion that individual autonomy, liberty, privacy, and agency remain intact in advanced capitalist societies. Birthed in the mid-'90s heyday of highly politicized net.art, their project shatters the myth that democratic freedoms are being facilitated or enhanced by modern network technologies. Userunfriendly is Hans Bernhard and Lizvlx's first major solo exhibition in the UK as UBERMORGEN. Ambitious and impeccably installed, the duo has assembled a collection of shocks and reveals: projects that expose the surreptitious methods of coercion, and the subtle mechanisms of control prevalent in institutions of authority, from hospitals to supermax prisons.
Patents Pending: Jeremy Bailey and The Future of Gestural Interfacing
Bailey at the AND Festival in 2007. Photo by Paul Greenwood. Courtesy of Pari Nadimi Gallery.
Jeremy Bailey will participate in Rhizome's Seven On Seven Conference on Saturday, April 20th, paired with technologist Julie Uhrman. A new project by Bailey, Famous New Media Art Patent Office, also went live today as part of the New Museum's First Look online exhibition series.
Anyone with a passing interest in the current status of the Internet and World Wide Web will have noticed a curious thing: the tide of popular opinion is changing, and net-skepticism is on the rise.
Chimera Q.T.E at Cell Project Space, London
Chimera Q.T.E at London's Cell Project Space draws its curatorial theme from a collagist interpretation of the Internet – a view that sees the web as a collection of orphaned, mashed and re-mashed digital fragments, or a kind of infinite patchwork quilt. For inspiration and the exhibition title, London based curator Attilia Fattori Franchini nudged aside contemporary similes to pull a monster from Greek mythology. The chimera, like that other Grecian mashup the griffin, is a beast composed of several animals, and both its status as an organic mishmash, and the common use of its name to denote fanciful pipe dreams, provided Franchini with a comparative reference for what the web is like.
Luckily the beast's double status as a hybrid creature and linguistic unit is also a useful tool for interpreting the show. For while the fragmented web model (i.e. the body of the beast) is popular and necessary for those who see contemporary artists as nomadic remixers and postproducers (see Mark Amerika's recent remixthebook), it is an idea built on fragile conceptual foundations that tumble down beyond the aggregated world of Tumblr and BuzzFeed. Hence the idea that today's artists are cut-and-pasting their way towards a liberatory new praxis could be mere chimera. What Chimera Q.T.E captures then is not a mediation of the Internet as it is – because nobody really knows. It captures an aesthetic sensibility informed by the fragmented web model and its proposed utopic possibilities. When formalised this sensibility, shared by the eight international artists on display, becomes a hybrid mix of lurid color palettes, errant geometry, and vivid, startlingly flat, digital precision. What the viewer sees in each work is essentially a dispatch from an abstract digital territory, an ambient landscape of the hyperreal.
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Ernest Edmonds, Manfred Mohr and Digital Aesthetic 3
When visionary engineer J.C.R Licklider published Man-Computer Symbiosis in 1960 — a paper outlining how man's intellectual productivity can, and should be significantly increased when partnered with a computer — the creative problems of contemporary artists were perhaps furthest from his mind. But during the 1960s, a digital fever struck the art world. Large numbers of enthused European and North American artists, curators, and theorists focussed their attention on the creative potential of computing. Software, systems, and concepts were tried and tested, and a decade's worth of activity culminated in two landmark exhibitions: Jasia Reichardt's Cybernetic Serendipity at London's ICA and Jack Burnham's Software: Information Technology at New York's Jewish Museum.
Two artists with retrospectives currently showing in the UK caught that initial wave of innovation: German born and New York-based Manfred Mohr, and British born, and still UK-based Ernest Edmonds.
Originally a painter with Constructivist sympathies, Edmonds turned to computer-aided algorithmic painting in 1968. Light Logic, his career-long retrospective at Site Gallery Sheffield, UK, combined early '70s works and original punch cards with a new motion sensitive installation and later video pieces. Edmonds' essential project is an investigation into the variant formal possibilities of a two-dimensional square. In each work the internal bounds of that shape are divided into sectors made visible by the distribution of colour, or the placement of a line. This is a process facilitated by programs designed to filter through combinatorial permutations, defined by Edmonds, until a suitable variation is found and then rendered by hand. A collection of numbered ink drawings from 1974 and 1975 capture the result of this procedure in the exhibition's only monochrome (black and white) works.
Shaping Forms, Ernest Edmonds, 2007
The late '80s saw Edmonds move from canvas and paper to video ...
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Constant Screen (2012) limited edition poster to accompany 'Constant Screen' video installation
Much has been made of our networked present's utopic possibilities, but it feels like a wave of anxiety and skepticism is emerging to counter the web optimism of individuals like Clay Shirkey. Is it right to read your work as an investigation into how usage of the Internet may not be altering how we think, feel, and interact for the better?
At the heart of my practice there is tension between fascination and wariness with new technologies, specifically the meshing of mobile telecommunications devices and the Internet. It is not an ambivalent position but it is conflicted. So yes - in part.
On the one hand I am intensely excited by the simultaneous nature of display, consumption and production that these interfaces encourage. I also understand the conditions of the digital (binary code that can be endlessly replicated) as fundamentally supporting information overload and excess, but see so many possibilities in embracing the torrent of information rather than attempting to oppose it.
At exactly the same time, I am wary and perhaps even frightened at moments. I can be a bit of a conspiracy theorist and as Internet space becomes ever-more commodified and our online lives are increasingly channeled through multi-national companies I do worry. I don't, for example, like the feeling of being locatable through the GPS facility on my phone. I am a bit of a McLuhanite (I keep returning to, and re-turning 'the Gutenberg Galaxy') and when he states "any technology gradually creates a totally new human environment", my response is to question what type of human environment is now being created and what type of human? Are these rapidly mutating environments ones that are conducive to human beings – or at least the human ...


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'Who Killed Garrett Phillips' Review: Doc explores small-town mystery
By John Hanlon
The new HBO documentary Who Killed Garrett Phillips is more complicated than the title suggests. It's true that the murder of an innocent 12-year old boy sets the two-episode tale in motion but the show isn't about simply finding Phillip's killer.
It's about exploring justice, race and the prosecution of a man who the police fingered early on.
The crime itself was committed in a small New York community in October of 2011. Garrett Phillips, a young man who had arrived home moments earlier, was brutally strangled. Neighbors heard a commotion coming from the apartment but when the police and the landlord finally entered the apartment, the perpetrator had vanished. Because one of the window blinds was facing outward (and there was a crack in the building's exterior), the assumption was that the assailant had jumped out of the window, avoiding detection.
Shortly thereafter, the police pinpointed a prime suspect: a black man who had once dated Phillips' mother, Tandy Cyrus. Despite other prominent suspects (including another of Tandy's ex-boyfriends, who happened to be a sheriff's deputy), Clarkson University soccer coach Oral Hillary was treated as the prime suspect.
The program focuses on the crime early on but then follows the limited investigation. Like the investigation itself, the show zeroes in on Hillary and his possible role in the crime. Some of the documentary's first interviews suggest that many believe that Hillary was responsible, creating the impression that the culprit is obvious (an impression that the police also seemed to have).
After the series sets the stage for the audience to potentially believe in Hillary's guilt, the program then dramatically transitions by introducing the man himself. Smartly twisting the audience's mindset, the show then brings a whole new perspective into the story.
Hillary speaks out about his relationship with the victim's mother and as the show progresses, plenty of questions arise about his treatment by the police and why he was chosen to be the focal point of the investigation. Was it about race? Was it about the fact that he had started dating a woman who was previously involved with the sheriff's deputy? There are no easy answers and director Liz Garbus realizes that, bringing up obvious questions about why the criminal case was handled this way.
The show does feature opposing viewpoints and there are several people featured here who still insist that Hillary was the killer. When seen in that light, some of the actions of the police department can be seen as motivated by good intentions but many of those actions also raise serious and undeniable questions about the investigation.
The second part of the two-part documentary begins by focusing more on a civil case that Hillary brings against his small community. Although the town gets put under the radar, so too does Hillary. He testifies in the civil case, putting his own life under the microscope. Although the early investigation seemed painfully (and questionably) simple, Garbus's strong direction ultimately shows how complicated the case eventually became.
Undeniably, this two part documentary is difficult to watch. The details about the crime itself are heartbreaking. The ways in which the case was handled are shocking and surprising. There are no easy or clear resolutions at the end. However, the program captures the complicated case well and it carefully touches upon some sensitive subjects without becoming too preachy.
Who Killed Garrett Phillips isn't as clear-cut as its title suggests but it's definitely worth a look.


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Here are the press shots set up for you, all gallery-ready for your enjoyment, with the press release after the jump. We'll have our own pics from the reveal this morning up shortly — but for now, enjoy the super-hero redness. Oh, and thank the lord it doesn't look like its Mitsu-platform prostituted sibling, the Chrysler Sebring.
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Chocolate Cake with Cocoa Puffs Frosting Recipe
Made with cocoa powder, melted bittersweet chocolate, sour cream, and brown sugar, this cake is rich, moist, and a treat for the hungry school kid in you.
- The cake batter can be mixed by hand, however, you will need an electric mixer to make the frosting.
- Dry milk powder is available in non-fat and regular varieties: both will work in this recipe.
- This recipe can be adapted to make 24 cupcakes. Line two 12-cup muffin tins with cupcake liners and divide batter equally among prepared tins. Bake until toothpick inserted in center of cupcakes comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool cupcakes in tins for 10 minutes, then remove from tins and cool completely on cooling racks, 30 to 45 minutes, before frosting.
- Yield:12
- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:1 hour and 45 minutes
- Baking spray
- 2 cups packed light brown sugar
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 cup sour cream, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons boiling water
- 2 teaspoons instant espresso powder
- 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate chips (or 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped)
- For the frosting:
- 5 cups Cocoa Puffs cereal
- 3/4 cup dry milk powder (See Notes)
- 16 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- 4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 16 ounces confectioners' sugar
Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly spray 13- by 9-inch cake pan with baking spray. Line pan with parchment paper lengthwise with one sheet, then crosswise with a second sheet to create a sling; spray once again with baking spray.
In large bowl, whisk together brown sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In medium bowl, whisk together eggs, sour cream, oil, and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir until mixture is a thick paste.
Stir espresso powder into boiling water, then, whisk into batter until smooth.
Place chocolate in small bowl and microwave until smooth and melted, 1 to 2 minutes, stopping microwave to stir chocolate every 30 seconds. Stir melted chocolate into batter.
Scrape batter into prepared pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of cake comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Transfer cake to cooling rack and cool in pan 10 minutes. Pull cake out onto a cooling rack using the parchment sling and cool completely, about 1 hour.
Meanwhile, pulse Cocoa Puffs and milk powder in food processor until powdery. Set aside.
Place whisk attachment on electric mixer. Whip cream cheese and butter on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add remaining 1 teaspoon vanilla and whip just until incorporated.
Reduce speed to lowest setting and add confectioners' sugar. Whip until incorporated, scraping bottom and sides of bowl with rubber spatula as needed, 30 to 60 seconds. Increase speed to medium-high and continue to whip until frosting is light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes.
Reduce speed to lowest setting once again; add Cocoa Puffs-milk powder mixture and whip until combined, about 1 minute.
Frost top and sides of cooled cake. Serve.
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Three important targets on poverty, slums and water have been met three years ahead of 2015, says this year's Report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), launched today by UN Secretary‐General Ban Ki‐moon. Meeting the remaining targets, while challenging, is possible ─ but only if Governments do not waiver from their commitments made over a decade ago.
In his foreword to the 2012 MDG Report, Mr. Ban says that further success depends on fulfilling MDG‐8 – the global partnership for development. "The current economic crises besetting much of the developed world must not be allowed to decelerate or reverse the progress that has been made. Let us build on the successes we have achieved so far, and let us not relent until all the MDGs have been attained", said Secretary‐General Ban.
Background: Millennium Development Goals
In September 2000, building upon a decade of major United Nations conferences and summits, world leaders came together at United Nations Headquarters in New York to adopt the United Nations Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets - with a deadline of 2015 - that have become known as the Millennium Development Goals.
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world's countries and all the world's leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world's poorest.
Useful links:
UN News Centre: Global partnership key to achieving Millennium Development Goals by 2015 – UN report
Online platform, "Integrated Implementation Framework", was launched in June by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to track the progress on the financial and policy commitments made by countries towards realizing the MDGs.
The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities.
United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC Brussels)
Residence Palace, Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 155, Block C2,7th and 8th floor, Brussels 1040, Belgium
Tel.: +32 2 788 8484 / Fax: 32 2 788 8485


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In the US, revenues for new, emerging product categories are expected to double in 2015 with strong demand for 3D printers, 4K Ultra HD TVs, connected home products, unmanned systems and wearables.
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- Growth continues in most segments
- Pressure on businesses' margins remains
- Payment terms range between 30 and 90 days
According to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), US consumer electronics industry's revenues are expected to grow 3% year-on-year in 2015, to a record USD 223 billion (up from USD 217 billion in 2014). US consumer sentiment continues to improve thanks to solid economic growth rates, lower gas prices and a recovering job market. That said, US consumers still remain somewhat cautious in their discretionary spending, continually looking for the best deals. This continues to fuel the on-going price competition among consumer electronics/ICT retailers and the need for more promotional activity, which in turn continues to put pressure on margins and causes competing firms to find ways to reduce their expenses in an industry with heavy R&D spending requirements.
Smartphones and tablets will remain the top two revenue drivers in the segment, accounting for about 35% of total consumer electronics revenue. That said, revenue growth for these devices, particularly tablets, has slowed as product categories have matured. According to CEA, unit sales of smartphones are expected to reach USD 169 million in 2015, up 6% year-on-year. Total smartphone revenues are projected to reach USD 51 billion (up 5%). Sales of tablets are expected to grow 3% (up to 81 million units) with revenues reaching USD 25 billion, down 1% year-on-year.
Revenues for new, emerging product categories are expected to double in 2015 with strong demand for 3D printers, 4K Ultra HD TVs, connected home products, unmanned systems and wearables (e.g. health and fitness devices along with smart watches). Revenues in the global 3D printing industry rose 34% in 2014 with the numbers of printers shipped increasing 68% as many consumers purchased their first 3D printers. Increased volumes were driven by more affordable and lower price options.
With expected growth in new vehicle sales in 2015, manufacturers of automotive electronics and audio systems are likely to benefit from higher utilisation of 4G technologies. It is expected that by 2020, 75% of all cars will be connected to the Internet. On the negative side, traditional PC/desktop sales will continue to be weak in 2015 as businesses slow the rate of PC replacement and consumers spend their money on tablets and smartphones.
The outlook for the telecom and semiconductor segments remains positive. Investments in infrastructure remain strong within the telecom sector as wireless providers look to expand network capabilities and improve service offerings. Given the role of semiconductors within mobile devices and consumer electronics, this is likely to remain an important economic driver for the foreseeable future. According to the US Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), the US semiconductor market alone posted double-digit growth in 2014, with US semiconductor company sales totalling USD 173 billion, and the outlook for 2015 remains promising. The industry represents one of America's top exporters, employing nearly 250,000 workers and continues to be a leading job creator in the US economy.
Payment terms in the ICT sector still commonly range between 30 and 90 days. When payment delays occur, they generally relate to disputes over product pricing or other issues, as opposed to liquidity concerns. Manufacturers often offer price protection or discounts on products in order to move inventory ahead of the rapid innovation of technology experienced in the market. This can lead to disputes and ultimately an increase in non-payments until the issues can be resolved. It is expected that the payment trend for 2015 will be on par with that of 2014 with little change in the overall payment behaviour. While the level of insolvencies is expected to remain low, they will nevertheless occur, given high competition, many start-ups and short product cycles.
As in 2014, our underlying underwriting strategy remains cautiously open with a focus on favourable subsectors such as smartphones, tablets and health technology products along with other emerging technologies, while steering clear of unfavourable or declining subsectors like PCs. Despite the mainly robust growth rates in many ICT segments, high competition is still leading to low pricing strategies and margin compression for distributors and retailers alike, with many looking to offset pricing pressures by expanding into higher margin product categories. Many businesses continue to rely heavily on bank facilities and external financing, resulting in leveraged balance sheets. Given the recent currency devaluation in some Latin American markets, we have seen some exporters impacted by cash flow issues in this region.
Product life cycles still remain short and therefore a company's long-term sustainability is driven by innovation and its ability to develop new products and bring them quickly to market. Therefore, when analysing buyers, the level of transparency in their products and their life cycles – including any insight into buyback arrangements for old or obsolete products – is key. With short life cycles and technology quickly becoming obsolete, it is important for us to know which end markets and subsectors are being served.


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- Can your IT estate be described as a series of discreet elements
- Can each of these elements be easily maintained within their business context
- Can each of these elements be simply described
This comes down to that old principle of "one thing well", in IT this doesn't mean low level services, it can be very high-level services, for instance putting in an HR system which does everything that the business wants in a vanilla package solution would meet all of these requirements. HR is in fact a single discreet element and its delivered via a single package, this matches how the business wants to manage that area.
So the building blocks of a simple IT strategy are not all of the same size, they are of the size that makes sense within the context of the business architecture
In a simple IT approach the focus is always on the on going evolution of the IT estate in line with business strategy and not based on a single project delivery. The way IT is set up tends to focus on the The Ivory Tower of Implementation Optimism v Long term viability which drives against simplicity and towards complexity.
So the focus of simple IT is to value
Long term evolution over short term expediencyArchitectural clarity over coding efficiencyBusiness Strategy over IT strategy
Simple IT is also to
Drive IT costs in-line with their business valueDrive IT technology selection in-line with the business valueCreate clear upgrade boundaries between different business value areasManage IT based on the different business value areas
The point here is that simple IT is not actually about making a single project faster, its about making the 2nd project and its support faster and more efficient. This means having control and direction into which the right approaches can be used, Agile where its about value creation and reaction, package where its about standardisation and SaaS where its about utility.
This is about having the business architecture, having the heatmap, and then aligning IT clearly into those areas.
Simple IT is hard, it requires control, it requires vision and it requires focus.
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Doctors group says some tests should be used sparingly
- Coalition%3A Some tests%2C procedures and drugs are unnecessary%2C even harmful
- Groups recommend more prudent use of antibiotics and cancer screenings
- CT scans are often unnecessary and expose people to radiation that raises the risk of cancer
In medical care, sometimes less is more.
A coalition of 25 medical societies Thursday releases its latest list of overused tests and procedures to question, if not avoid.
Unnecessary tests, surgeries and drugs drive up health care costs and, in some cases, actually harm patients, says Christine Cassel, president and CEO of the ABIM (American Board of Internal Medicine) Foundation.
The campaign, called Choosing Wisely, released its first set of recommendations last year, with nine medical groups on board. Sixteen additional medical societies have since joined. Recommendations, which include advice on obstetrics and pediatrics for the first time, include:
-- Obstetrics. Don't induce labor or perform a C-section before the 39th week of pregnancy, unless medically necessary. A typical pregnancy is 40 weeks. Babies born before 39 weeks have higher risks of learning disabilities and respiratory problems. The March of Dimes' Diane Ashton, who isn't involved in the new campaign, notes that a baby's brain undergoes significant development in the last few weeks of pregnancy.
-- Obstetrics. Between weeks 39 and 41 of pregnancy, don't induce labor before the cervix is ready, unless it's medically necessary. Trying to induce labor before the cervix has thinned and softened naturally could lead to longer delivery times and an increased risk of C-sections, says Hal Lawrence, executive vice president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which is a member of the campaign.
-- Pediatrics. Don't perform a CT scan for every minor head injury in children. Half of kids who visit the ER with a head injury now undergo CT scans, which expose children to radiation that can increase their future risk of cancer.